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musou wrote

Reply to I resent how lofi hip hop is no longer the perfectly inoffensive aural wallpaper to cover up silence and environmental noise it once was by Moonside

everything we love and find meaning in will eventually be decontextualized and commodified to the fullest possible extent unless its creators specifically take steps to prevent this from happening. actually i think the way instrumental hiphop often gets treated as a kind of aural furniture rather than something worth paying attention to and experiencing for its own sake probably contributes to this happening because there's no shared cultural practices or values being transmitted along with the experience of the music itself

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musou wrote

Reply to Cooking tips the elites DON'T want you to know about by flabberghaster

i love donuts but making em from scratch is a pain. cause you have to let em rise, and it takes a while, and really dry air (like i have) can cause issues with that whole process. but you can just get the refrigerated cans of biscuit dough and cut each biscuit dough circle in half and fry that and it's pretty much exactly the same thing. i like nutmeg+cinnamon+sugar on mine but you can also glaze em or whatever you like.

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musou wrote

Reply to Gwoss Dispways of Power - Gretchen Felker-Martin on the moral sadomasochism hiding behind displays of purity in social media queer art circles by Moonside

when i was fresh out of 20 years of republican evangelical brainwashing, Shakesville was one of the places that helped me make sense of what had happened to me and how much i didn't know about the world and the experiences of other people. it took me several more years after that to realize that a lot of the people on that website would have me replace one inflexible moral absolutism with another. and as in the church, those with the most influence were the ones most likely to be corrupted by it.

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musou wrote

Reply to I'm feeling really anxious by flabberghaster

i'm also still taking the same covid precautions as always even though most of the people i know IRL aren't anymore (for no good reason). an old friend of mine actually just moved to my city and i haven't been able to go over and visit with them because i still have to be just as careful as always. i have multiple people in my life going through chemotherapy and an infant niece to worry about. i totally understand your frustration, this experience has taught me how many otherwise rational people i know will actually choose to ignore data because they don't want it to be true.

it can be very lonely to affirm what you know is the truth, but i don't think you should feel bad about yourself or your actions for it.

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Reply to So what's a nice way to keep a blog in 2022? by Moonside

if you go the self hosted route i like jekyll for this purpose. you can host entirely on github pages which is where i host teatimer.site (although i don't use jekyll for that, it's too simple to need jekyll)

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